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And the high priest said, Are these things so?
2)
Testifying
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And he said,
1Men,
abrothers and fathers, listen. The God of
2bglory appeared to our father Abraham while he was in
cMesopotamia, before he dwelt in
dHaran,
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And said to him,
a"Come out from your land and from your relatives, and come into the land which I will show you.''
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Then he
acame forth from the land of the
bChaldeans and dwelt in Haran. And from there, after his father
cdied, He
1removed him into this land, in which you now dwell.
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Yet He did not give him an inheritance in it, not even a place to set his foot on; and He
apromised to give it to him for a possession and to his
bseed after him, while he had
cno child.
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And God spoke in this way that his seed would be a
asojourner in a
1foreign land, and
2they would
benslave them and mistreat
them 3cfour hundred years.
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"And whatever nation they will
aserve as slaves I will judge,'' said God,"and after these things they will come forth and
bserve Me as priests in this place.''
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And He gave to him a
acovenant of circumcision; and thus
Abraham begot
bIsaac and circumcised him on the eighth day; and Isaac,
cJacob; and Jacob, the
dtwelve patriarchs.
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And the patriarchs became
ajealous of Joseph and
bsold him into Egypt; yet God was
cwith him
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And rescued him out of all his afflictions and granted him favor and wisdom before Pharaoh, king of Egypt; and he
aappointed him governor over Egypt and over all his house.
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And a
afamine came over all Egypt and Canaan as well as great affliction; and our fathers could find no
1sustenance.
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But when Jacob heard that there was
agrain in Egypt, he sent our fathers out the first time.
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And during the second time Joseph was
amade known to his brothers, and Joseph's race became manifest to
bPharaoh.
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And Joseph sent
word and called for Jacob his
afather and all his family,
1seventy-five souls in all.
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And aJacob went down into Egypt; and he
bended his days, he and our fathers.
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And they were carried over to Shechem and placed in the tomb which Abraham had
abought for a sum of silver from the sons of Hamor in Shechem.
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But as the time of the
apromise which God had assured to Abraham drew near, the people grew and were
bmultiplied in Egypt,
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Until 1another aking rose up over Egypt who did not know of Joseph.
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This one dealt
acraftily with our race and mistreated our fathers, so that they threw out their
bbabies in order that they would not be kept alive.
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At this time
1Moses was born and was
2lovely to God. And he was nurtured
athree months in his father's house.
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And when he was
1thrown out, Pharaoh's
adaughter took him up and nurtured him as a son for herself.
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And Moses was educated in all the
1awisdom of the Egyptians, and he was powerful in his words and works.
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But when he was approaching forty years of age, it came into his heart to visit his
abrothers, the sons of Israel.
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And when he saw one
of them being wronged, he defended
him, and he avenged him who was being oppressed by striking the Egyptian dead.
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And he supposed that his brothers understood that God through his hand was giving salvation to them; but they did not understand.
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And on the following day he appeared to them as they were
afighting and tried to reconcile them in peace, saying,
1Men, you are brothers. Why are you wronging one another?
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But the one who was wronging his neighbor pushed him away, saying,
a"Who appointed you a ruler and a judge over us?
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Do you want to do away with me the same way you did away with the Egyptian yesterday?''
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And Moses
afled at this word and became a sojourner in the land of Midian, where he begot two
bsons.
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And when forty years had been fulfilled, an
1Angel appeared to him in the wilderness of Mount Sinai in the flame of a
athornbush fire.
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And when Moses saw
it, he marveled at the vision; and as he approached to examine
it, there came the voice of the
1Lord:
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a"I am the God of your fathers, the God of Abraham and Isaac and Jacob.'' And Moses trembled and dared not
1examine it.
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And the Lord said to him,
a"Untie the sandals from your feet, for the place on which you stand is holy ground.
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1aI have surely seen the ill-treatment of My people who are in Egypt and have
bheard their groaning, and I have come down to
crescue them. And now, come, I will send you into Egypt.''
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This Moses, whom they refused, saying,
aWho appointed you a ruler and a judge? this one God has sent as both a ruler and a redeemer, along with the hand of the
bAngel who
1appeared to him in the thornbush.
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This man led them
aout, doing
bwonders and signs in the land of Egypt and in the
cRed Sea and in the
dwilderness for
eforty years.
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This is the Moses who said to the sons of Israel,
a"A Prophet will God raise up unto you from your brothers, like me.''
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This is the one who was in the assembly in the wilderness with the
aAngel who spoke to him in
bMount Sinai and
with our fathers,
and who received living
coracles to give to us.
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To him our fathers were not willing to become obedient, but thrust
him away and
aturned in their hearts to Egypt,
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Saying to Aaron,
a"Make gods for us who will go before us; for this Moses, who has led us out of the land of Egypt, we do not know what has happened to him.''
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And they made a
1acalf in those days and brought up a sacrifice to the idol and were glad with the works of their hands.
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But God turned and
adelivered them up to
1serve the
2bhost of heaven, even as it is written in the
3book of the prophets,
c"Did you offer slain beasts and sacrifices to Me for
dforty years in the wilderness, O house of Israel?
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And you took up the
1tabernacle of
aMoloch and the star of your god
2Rompha, the images which you made to worship. And I will carry you away beyond Babylon.''
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The atabernacle of
btestimony was with our fathers in the wilderness, even as He who spoke to Moses instructed
him to make it, according to the
cpattern which he had seen.
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This tabernacle our fathers, having in their turn received, also brought in with
aJoshua when they took
bpossession of the nations, whom God
cdrove out before the face of our fathers until the days of
dDavid,
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Who found favor before God and asked to find a
ahabitation for the
bGod of Jacob.
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But Solomon
abuilt Him a house.
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Yet the
1Most High does
2not adwell in that which is made by hands, even as the prophet says,
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"Heaven is My throne, and the earth is a footstool for My feet.
1What kind of house will you build for Me, says the Lord, or what is the place of My rest?
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Has not My hand made all these things?''
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You astiff-necked and uncircumcised in
bhearts and
cears, you always
1oppose the Holy
2Spirit; as your fathers
did, you also
do.
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Which of the
aprophets did your fathers not persecute? And they killed those who announced beforehand concerning the coming of the
brighteous One, whose betrayers and murderers you have now become,
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You who received the
alaw as
1ordinances of
bangels and did not keep
it.
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Killed
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Now as they
aheard these things, they were
1exasperated and
bgnashed their teeth at him.
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But being
1full of the Holy Spirit, he looked intently into heaven and saw the
2aglory of God and Jesus
3standing at the
bright hand of God;
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And he said, Behold, I see the
1heavens aopened up and the
bSon of Man standing at the right hand of God.
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But they cried out with a loud voice and covered their ears and rushed upon him with one accord.
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And they threw
him aoutside of the city and
bstoned him. And the
cwitnesses laid down their garments at the feet of a young man called
1dSaul.
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And they stoned Stephen as he
1called upon
the Lord and said, Lord Jesus, receive my
aspirit!
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And akneeling down, he cried out with a loud voice, Lord, do
1not hold this sin against them. And when he had said this, he fell
basleep.
